mutley 4,497 Posted January 9, 2015 Report Share Posted January 9, 2015 We are pleased to announce a new update coming soon for Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition. This update resolves several issues reported to us by the FSX: Steam Edition community and will be automatically applied to your software via the Steam platform once it’s released. Below is the full list of changes and fixes made in this update: • Networking: Resolved - potential crash bug when decoding Steam host tag data. • Error Reporting: Resolved - error message if the software failed to load the language.dll so that it shows the name of the actual dll it is trying to load. • Learning Centre: Resolved - when selecting a mission from the Learning Centre, you would be told that the mission script failed to load and would be disabled. • Learning Centre: Changed - the Learning Centre still referenced a GameSpy logo - now replaced with Steam logo. • Graphics: Improved vertex and index buffer handling defaults and a few other things to give up to 10% framerate improvement (as long as vsync is not enabled/forced). • Graphics: Change - Enable trilinear mipmap filtering by default. • Graphics: Resolved - If the Special Effects setting was set to HIGH, some special effects like external lights, landing/water effects would not work.• Graphics: Changed default value for max per-frame texture uploads to decrease time for high quality terrain textures to appear. • Settings: Resolved - HIGHMEMFIX was enabled by default but could very rarely be disabled at load time.• For new installs, we now provide default versions of dll.xml and exe.xml files to improve compatibility with existing addons. We are continuing to monitor your feedback on FSX: Steam Edition and would like to thank the community for taking the time to report these and other issues. We know that we have not fixed all of the reported issues, but we continue to work to improve the product in the coming weeks. Link to post Share on other sites
allardjd 1,853 Posted January 9, 2015 Report Share Posted January 9, 2015 That last bullet is interesting... John Link to post Share on other sites
mutley 4,497 Posted January 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2015 Should fix the FSUIPC problem hopefully/ Link to post Share on other sites
UKJim 502 Posted January 9, 2015 Report Share Posted January 9, 2015 They have a long road to drive but steam edition development exciting news! Link to post Share on other sites
britfrog 180 Posted January 10, 2015 Report Share Posted January 10, 2015 despite having deep reservations about steam, at least they have started on the right foot with some sensible changes, after all they have quite a few years of work to catch up on, good for them! Link to post Share on other sites
hurricanemk1c 195 Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 First Steam add-on announced: First Class Simulations 'Around the World in 80 Days' https://www.facebook.com/fsxinsider/photos/a.1527790617473188.1073741831.1520213891564194/1543054102613506/?type=1&theater Link to post Share on other sites
UKJim 502 Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 I know I have already posted on this thread but looking at it again made me think more about the update - I am very interested in seeing the improvement to the FPS after the update as their claim to 10% framerate improvement would be good imo on my old dinosaur machine. Also the 'Graphics: Changed default value for max per-frame texture uploads to decrease time for high quality terrain textures to appear' comment - interesting again as I always have horrible blurries and it depresses me out We shall see and it all sounds promising. Jim Link to post Share on other sites
mutley 4,497 Posted March 27, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2015 If anyone is still pondering whether to get FSX SE, it's back on an 80% off offer so 3.99 until Monday 30th March 2015 Link to post Share on other sites
MyPC8MyBrain 273 Posted March 27, 2015 Report Share Posted March 27, 2015 prob because they are coming with a completely new sim soon (as rumors suggests) Link to post Share on other sites
wain 879 Posted March 27, 2015 Report Share Posted March 27, 2015 I bought it around christmas time for 3.99 only as it was so cheap, luckily I did because it went up and then I had a disc issue and could not use the original. New sim, how long is soon? years? months?, who knows, I have an old Football manager 2009 on Steam and it still works fine so FSXSE will still be here for a while yet..... Wayne Link to post Share on other sites
IZ0JUB 162 Posted March 27, 2015 Report Share Posted March 27, 2015 Thanks Joe for the heads up, just signed up with Steam and FSX downloading at around 600-700 Kbs as I type!!! For 4-99 euros its worth it just as a clean copy of FSX. Kindest Regards, M Link to post Share on other sites
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